Did you *start* mysqld?   :>

Sounds to me like mysqld hasn't been launched.  Check to make sure the server software 
is actually running.

HTH

/Rob

>Hi:
>
>I telnet to the server.  But I can not get into MySql
>database.  What's the problem?
>
>
>% mysql
>ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server
>through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
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